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Sources used in preparing U-Boat Operations pages

There is no ultimate reference on U-boat operations however the following books all complement each other nicely and are a good start for a reference library. If you want to get more detailed information than provided by the operations pages I suggest you become a member of uboat.net. The membership fee there is the best investment you can make if you want access to extremely detailed information such as details of ships and commander biographies.

Books sorted by author's name

Blair, Clay
Hitler's U-Boat War Vols I & II (especially appendices)

Franks, Norman
Search, Find and Kill: the RAF's U-Boat successes in World War Two

Franks, Norman & Zimmerman, Eric
U-Boat Versus Aircraft

Niestlé, Axel
German U-Boat losses during WW2 - details of destruction

Paterson, Lawrence
First U-Boat Flotilla
Second U-Boat Flotilla

Rohwer, Jurgen
Axis Submarine Successes of World War Two: German, Italian, and Japanese Submarine Successes, 1939-1945

Rössler, Eberhard
The U-Boat - evolution and technical history

Schoenfeld, Max
Stalking the U-Boat: USAAF Offensive Anti-Submarine Operations in World War II

Stern, Robert C
Type VII U-Boats

Tarrant, V E
The Last Year of the Kriegsmarine

Wynn, Kenneth
U-Boat Operations of the Second World War Vol I & II

Other sources
see also the acknowledgements section

www.uboat.net
An excellent source of errata to the above books and the ultimate U-Boat reference site.

Fernando Almeida
Research and Database additions

Werner Freitag
Research and Database additions

Dennis Peck
Research and Database additions

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